[Boatanchors] Re: Stuff

[rayfri]

I endorse the "other place" concept... AFTER you find out what we want 
here  HI HI.
After all ...  we MUST protect the environment from having this stuff in 
the landfill....
Just imagine how you would feel if someone told you someday that your 
house is built on top of an old landfill that
contained a Collins S Line or some other gear like that!!     HI HI
Ray  wa7itz

Roger Basford wrote:

> Jack,
>
> I think the best suggestion that's been made in reply to your post is 
> to get someone to sell it on eBay and split the proceeds. Now, I won't 
> claim that I provide a public service to ham radio by selling stuff on 
> there myself, but a lot of what I do sell finds good homes all over 
> the world.
>
> I've been asked on four occasions in the past year or so to see if 
> there's anything of any value left in a silent key sale after the 
> modern gear has been sold. In all cases, the hams from local clubs 
> tasked with disposing of the "junk" had no idea of what they had, so 
> I'm not surprised that folks at your local club didn't show much 
> enthusiasm about your offer of more equipment. Although most of those 
> hams I mention were in their middle age or older, most haven't held a 
> licence for more then ten years and have no real knowledge of the 
> history of the hobby, hence they can't expected to appreciate the 
> value (monetary and historical) of some obscure part that to us 
> boatanchorists is gold dust. It's not just the pieces of equipment and 
> parts - it's also the information that older hams have stashed away 
> that often makes their "junk" worth having. Just a few pages of a 
> manual or a copied article from an old magazine will save someone 
> years of searching.
>
> Anyway, mustn't ramble! Find a eBay partner and get him to sell it all 
> for you - it's transparent, you can see what  money he's getting and 
> who's getting the equipment. That way, at least what eventually goes 
> to the landfill will have been properly sorted and anything of worth 
> recycled.
>
> All the best,
>
> Roger G3VKM
>
> (Norfolk, England)
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:35:43 -0600
> From: "Jack Taylor" <jack at n7oo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Re: Boatanchors Digest, Vol 20, Issue 13;
> Excess stuuf
> To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
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> Apparently I touched a button, sorry about that!
>
> Indeed I have donated several pickup loads of gear to the local radio 
> club
> which was used in their auctions.  The radio club does collect donated 
> items
> for resale or disposal but quite a bit of it ends up going to the 
> landfill
> due to
> little interest in boatanchor parts and items.  I had advised that I was
> getting ready
> to dispose of more "stuff" but drew no interest so out it went.  I am of
> course
> reserving a few items with which to pay for flowers when I go SK.
>
> As I see it, most of the old timers have passed on and there's very 
> little
> interest in
> the old gear except for readying it for resale to a declining number of
> collectors.
>
> My observation is that the young people (such as in scouting programs)
> aren't interested
> in "old junk", they even turn their noses up at 5 year old computers.  I
> once donated a
> operational computer system with loads of software to a couple of teens
> figuring they
> might take advantage of it as a learning tool.  It was promptly 
> disposed of
> since it
> didn't do gaming.  For this I blame myself for not thinking to include 
> game
> software.
>
> How many young kids do you hear on your local repeaters?  It's been 
> several
> years
> since I heard the last kid around here.  For that matter, there's not 
> much
> activity of any
> kind except for the weekly net where a few check in with "No traffic".
>
> 73 de Jack
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